The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-10-16


whatever feelings of weakness and dread
which assailed him, gradually getting
more control over himself.
"The Eagle is my friend" began
Jack, at last gathering his faculties to-
gether, wishing to learn the meaning OF
what he saw.
Eyes, the Eagle is the friend of Jack,
The sneaking wolf and the coward
Crow hide in bush and shot Jack, then
want to tomahawk-tOen me shoot
Black Crow in arm and they ran away"
Good chief-I'n never forget your
act. But must get up out of this.
Gan you help me to camp"
Guess so! Wait little while-feel
better den-soon be better, then go to
camp"
Jack could do nothing else. He was
then really too weak to help himself,
though as the Eagle said he found him
self rapidly gaming strength. The day
was declining-his friend swOuld be very
anxious-more especially il they had
any knowledge of the state of feeling
against them in the Indian village. But
what could he dole must wait the re-
turn of strength and them.
DO you think the Grey Wolf and the
Black Crow will come back?' he asked
of the exiled Blackfoot chief.
/ "No, don't think so; but maybe so
no telling what bad lngen do they
very bad Ingen."
! Despite his hurts Jack could not for
bear 10 smile at the earnest tone of the
Eagle in making the assertion that they
were bad Ingens. Eagle evidently had
no love for them, though the same
color with himself. The Eagle was
daring and brave man, ana though
ambush and surprise were the natural
modes of his peoples warfare, yet
the COwardly ambushing OF their
rival and then running away at
a shadow, added little to the love he
bore the perpetrators, disguised him
and he vented his dislike in calling
them bad Ingens. So we see the same
undercurrent of like and dislike, pre-
possession or prejudice, shown IN saw
age life, just as it is in our most pol
isbed society, tempering and shading
opinions and expressions.
| But we cannot say that Jack made all
these reflections as he lay there in
deed, we rather think he did not-and
that the writer is responsible for most
of them, for poor Jack was far too
anxious about his Morning Dawn"
and the task before him, TO have time
for such thoughts. How was he to
carry off his bride? That she wouId be
at the spring he was confident, we're it
in the bounds OF possibility, but even
she might be frustrated. If she got
there she must not wait-all kinds of
| thoughts would assail her, for though
not like q timid, shrinking, city miss,
she was a living, pulseting, loving,
earnest woman, who went direct TO her
aim, and where she loved allowed no
doubt to Iinger and no cloud TO obscure.
! An hour afterwards Jack appeared
! in our camp, escorted by the Eagle.
| Except for pallid weakness, there was
no material change from his usual ap-
pearance and feelings. The sun had
Just sunk behind the western noun
tains when he entered our camp. To
say that he was welcomed gladly, needs
no repetition, and though we saw his
hurt, we were thankful nothing more
serious had happened. But when he
( told me of his plans-how he was deter
mined to carry off the chiefs daughter
that very night-when we saw that
neither representations of the dangers
of such a course to himself, nor the
effect 1t would have on our fortunes,
we were filed with fresh apprehension.
: His weakness, he said, would soon pass
aWay-no time would be so prOpitious
as the present, when the young rival
chiefs thought he was dead, and
very likely had already made the
Big Buffalo acquainted with it
would take them entirely unprepared
AMI by surprise; for, who would think
of watching for the Morning Dawn. or
for him they thought was dead. As to
his friends, We need not move in the
matter and even Big Buffalo would
hesitate before massaCTeing those who
had no hand IN the abductiOn-whi
would surely bring down upon him and
his tribe the vengeance of the govern
ment. AS for himself, he would take
his arms, a bag of provisions sufficient
for two or three days, get four OF his
best horses, saddle two, lead the others
to change in case of pursuit, and speed
him to the tfysting place of his love at
the spring, mount her on horse and
by them make their way to the distant
fort. The darkness would give them
good start and if no mlshap befell
them, morning would I'D them be
You'd the danger of CAP
There is no eloquenoe IA hat of
young lover. His earnes SIS and |
truth give eloquenoe to his l ngue as
love warns and strengthens his frame. |
Impediments are swept away, diff
culties overcome and rough places made |
smooth before such pleader, and we |
found ourselves gradually turning to |
his way of thinking. Not one of us, |
however, but what would rather have |
accompanied him, but he would not |
listen to such thing.
mo, my dear friends" he said,
1.-The business is mine, the prize is to be
mine and as the danger is not insur-
mountable; the peril if any there be,
which [ must doubt, shall be mine also |
So make up your minds to have it so
and when we meet at the fort Wen |
have gay time over this lschrymose
parting"
What could we do-loving him as we
did we could but come one by one, and |
acquiesce in his decision. Though we
older heads scented danger, we could
not prove there was danger and we had
to let him go alone. Halt an hour
afterwards he and the Eagle left our
camp with what he wanted and took
their. way towards the horses in the
valley below But we had done what
we could to avert danger-now we
could only wait till the unknown
future told what would be the result of
his loving, daring, venture. We let our